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Online Voice Tools for Language and Literacy Michael Coghlan September 11 th , 2008

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Page 1: Online Voice Tools For Language And Literacy

Online Voice Tools for Language and Literacy

Michael CoghlanSeptember 11th, 2008

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Why Media?

Adrian Miles (RMIT):

“ make our institution…more porous to the students’ private technologies – their mobile phones, their laptops and their cameras.”

Innate human desire/need to create Ubiquity and ease of participatory media enables

creation of images, film, documents, course content, assessments, etc

develops Digital Literacy

http://flickr.com/photos/chunyang/800589975/

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“The Read/Write Web”(Tim Berners Lee)

Original photo by Hummanna.

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No Longer a Lone Voice

Evolution of new tools, and Increased bandwidth (estimated 70% of

Australian households now have broadband)

> voice with images, video, animation is becoming the norm

BUT, voice alone still has value…Image courtesy of http://flickr.com/photos/rick_leche/2213262465/

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The Ideal:

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Annotating Content

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Asynch

Synch

Oral Written

DialogicMinimalistic

Reflective; combination

of dialogic and monologic

Most structured form

ofcommunication

COMMUNICATION AXIS

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Asynchronous Voice (Boards)

new form of communication in the educational landscape

Allows individual assessment of oral output for every student

Can test pronunciation, fluency, communicative competence, conflict negotiation (using a scenario approach)

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Asynchronous Voice - Tools

Wimba: the original (and expensive) example

Free Alternatives Voicethread (example) Chinswing (example) Vaestro

Source: www.voice.gatech.edu/

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http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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Where do you put your audio?

Local server LMS (eg Moodle, but usually limited file size) Hosted podcasting services:

Podomatic Odeo Hipcast Utterz (microblogging)

Wikis (eg Wikispaces) Other – the Internet Archive:

http://www.archive.org/index.php

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Micro (audio) Blogging

Can record directly on to your personal or public site

Can post via phone directly to site (several sites provide this service these days – including Blogger)

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UStream: Broadcast Yourself

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Communication Teamwork Problem Solving Initiative and Enterprise Planning and Organising Self-management Learning Technology

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Digital Story Telling

Photostory Moviemaker

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Photo Story: which skills? Communication Teamwork Problem Solving Initiative and Enterprise Planning and Organising Self-management Learning Technology

Which employability skills? – all of them!

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Virtual Classrooms(Elluminate, Adobe Connect, Live Classroom)Free: Wiziq, Dim Dim

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Second Life

See Second Life in Education

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The Essential List

Instant Messenger (Skype, Google Talk)Asynchronous Voice BoardPodcasting (or other audio hosting) SiteVirtual Classroom

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ANY QUESTIONS?COMMENTS?

e: [email protected]: http://protopage.com/michaelc